These posts got the most traffic in 2008 according to our internal traffic tracker.
10. Dan McLaughlin’s look at the 2012 field of Republican candidates.
9. Dan Perrin’s seven reasons McCain-Palin will win.
8. Ben Domenech’s story on Barack Obama’s short honeymoon.
7. Anonymous 14′s diary on what we were never intended to know in this election.
6. My Operation Leper post.
5. Jeff Emanuel’s tale of the tape.
4. My post on Sarah Palin’s teleprompter breaking, which was heavily disputed, but proven right.
3. Josh Painter’s “Beauty of Sarah Palin” post, which still generates massive google linkage.
2. My post on the Democrats releasing Sarah Palin’s social security number in their opposition research dump.
1. Absentee catching Don Fowler on video laughing about the hurricane hitting New Orleans.
HONORABLE MENTION: While he did not make the top ten, Dave In Florida appears in the top 25 with three different posts. Well done.
Moe Lane
Steve Maley
Dan McLaughlin
Neil Stevens
Daniel Horowitz
Ah, good times, good times. (nt)
Thrhheggeegwc Jjtkylkfofud (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 2:02PM EST (link)Erick, I have a question
Thrhheggeegwc Jjtkylkfofud (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 2:05PM EST (link)I left a comment on a throwaway diary and the comment disappeared.
What happened to it?
Need a link to the diary.
Erick Erickson (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 2:08PM EST (link)Can you give me a link to the diary?
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Here's a link
Thrhheggeegwc Jjtkylkfofud (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 2:08PM EST (link)Choose your chairman
That's weird.
Bill S (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 2:12PM EST (link)I read your comment, George, so I know it WAS there.
“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins
Maybe the servers are revolting ;)
Thrhheggeegwc Jjtkylkfofud (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 2:15PM EST (link)It’s punishment for that Drudge link this past summer!
It *is* possible to delete comments
Bill S (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 2:21PM EST (link)from the wp-admin interface. I suppose the diary author could have deleted your comment, but I’m not sure why they’d do it.
“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins
I just checked
Thrhheggeegwc Jjtkylkfofud (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 2:21PM EST (link)And you’re right. But I couldn’t possibly imagine why a “Welcome to Redstate!” comment would get deleted by the author.
Weird
Erick Erickson (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 2:45PM EST (link)No clue. Can’t find it. This is a Neil moment.
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Not a big deal
Thrhheggeegwc Jjtkylkfofud (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 3:40PM EST (link)It was a throwaway comment for a throwaway diary. Nothing I was planning on ever referring to in the future.
But I do think that users should not be allowed to delete comments in their blogs.
Is there a way stats can be made available to members for their own blogs?
NightTwister (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 2:38PM EST (link)Possibly somewhere on the profile page?
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. – Winston Churchill
Not sure
Erick Erickson (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 2:47PM EST (link)I’ll see what can be done.
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Paging George Claghorn
Erick Erickson (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 2:58PM EST (link)I just updated your signature line.
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Erick, How do we add that signature line? -nt
Wubbies World (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 3:04PM EST (link)…
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Here you go.
Erick Erickson (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 3:23PM EST (link)<div style=”width:100%;background-color:#eeeeee;”><div style=”float: left;border-right:1px dotted #000;”><center><a href=”http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/01/01/redstate-in-2009/” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://images.redstate.com/strikelogo.png” alt=”image” /></a></div><div style=”position:relative;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;”><p style=”font-variant:small-caps; font-size: 14px; font-style: bold;”> <a href=”http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/01/01/redstate-in-2009/” target=”_blank”>Join the RedState Strike Force</a></p></div></div>
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Erick
Brian Simpson (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 6:00PM EST (link)I tried that for my signature and it doesn’t seem to be working right. What did I do wrong?
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Important principles may and must be inflexible. ~ Abraham Lincoln
simpson...send me your html...I'll fix it
speciallist (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 6:08PM EST (link)special@pacbell.net(extra)
speciallist,
Brian Simpson (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 6:12PM EST (link)I copied and pasted exactly what Erick has there.
| My RedState archive |
Important principles may and must be inflexible. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Something is happening to image link..
speciallist (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 6:22PM EST (link)it won’t show up in my editor….I’ll keep checking
here is simple link...
speciallist (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 6:25PM EST (link)nothin'...
speciallist (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 6:26PM EST (link)(img src=”http://images.redstate.com/strikelogo.png”)
That doesn't seem to be working either. -nt-
Brian Simpson (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 6:51PM EST (link)| My RedState archive |
Important principles may and must be inflexible. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Brian, I ended up just using "snag-it" to...
Wubbies World (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 6:56PM EST (link)… grab the image and post it to my photobucket account, pull out my HTML 4.0 book and crafted my logo from scratch. I couldn’t get it to work either. I am still working on the link to the sign up link.
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hey simpson...I pimped the sig line for ya..
speciallist (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 7:06PM EST (link)lol
Brian, your quotation marks are broken
Bill S (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 7:15PM EST (link)This happened to another poster a couple of days ago. Go into your signature, delete the quotes and reinsert them. Somehow, copy/paste of quotes somehow gets the wrong quotes inserted.
“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins
Aha! Thanks bs. -nt-
Brian Simpson (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 9:06PM EST (link)| My RedState archive |
Important principles may and must be inflexible. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Thanks, Erick!
Thrhheggeegwc Jjtkylkfofud (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 3:38PM EST (link)You rock!
At whom
Academic Elephant (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 5:38PM EST (link)It should be “Do not ask at whom the happy bunny laughs. He laughs at you.”
I judge. I judge.
I will fix it.
Thrhheggeegwc Jjtkylkfofud (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 5:40PM EST (link)I’m getting rid of that quote anyway. Working on my sig line now.
Bro. Dave should be proud.
Rod_Patrick (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 3:01PM EST (link)3 out of 25….NOT BAD! Not bad at all!
I Miss DaveInFL! Where Is DaveInFL?!! (nt)
IJB Thursday, January 1st at 7:49PM EST (link)DaveInFL completed his Hazing quickly...
speciallist (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 7:55PM EST (link)np
maybe he went further south for the winter (nt)
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 8:18PM EST (link)(nt)
Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
“Liberals, looking to do for? America what they’ve done for? Detroit! which is DESTROY IT!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”
Follow @JLenardDetroit
(RS:Help) (JLD) (Hollyweird) (Brain-deads) (SPIN-cycle) (Obamaocare) (Party of kNOw) (Conservatism) (TEApeats) (respectful) (message) (Warning: Children Will Die!!)
Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
“The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)
that is amazing we agreed 90 percent Erick!
Doc Holliday (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 3:50PM EST (link)except I had one of my own at number 6
I kid, I kid (in the voice of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog)
Happy New Year everyone!
Molon Labe!
oh, this is traffic based
Doc Holliday (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 4:22PM EST (link)I never like to cause a fuss.
Molon Labe!
How about the rest of the Top 25?
Jack_Savage (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 4:05PM EST (link)We need to see who might get a Top Post Bowl invitation….
Here is the top 30
Erick Erickson (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 4:10PM EST (link)http://www.redstate.com/diaries/absentee/2008/aug/30/fowler-fouls-hurricane-is-gods-favor-to-dem/
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/sep/02/breaking-democrats-release-sarah-palins-soc/
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/josh_painter/2008/aug/17/the-beauty-of-sarah-palin/
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/sep/04/breaking-sarah-palin-winged-her-speech-bec/
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/aug/30/tale-of-the-tape-sarah-palin-vs-barack-obam/
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/erick/2008/nov/05/operation-leper/
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/anonymous_14/2008/oct/30/what-you-were-never-intended-to-know-in-this/
http://www.redstate.com/ben_domenech/2008/12/11/the-short-honeymoon/
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/dan_perrin/2008/oct/28/the-seven-reasons-mccain-palin-are-a-lock-to/
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/nov/05/the-2012-gop-field-first-call/
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redalert/2008/oct/26/stunning-results-in-early-voting-in-californi/
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/dave_in_fla/2008/oct/29/mccains-pollster-gives-us-very-good-news/
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/nov/05/obama-administration-survival-guide/
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/david_rasbold/2008/oct/16/conversations-with-an-internal-pollster-for-o/
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/aug/28/mystery-solved/
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/aug/21/in-2002-barack-obama-supported-infanticide-a/
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/brad_smith/2008/oct/16/time-to-get-real-and-save-the-senate/
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/oct/22/nrcc-yanks-funding-from-michelle-bachman/
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/david_hinz/2008/oct/22/has-sen-obamas-hawaii-trip-detoured-through/
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/aug/28/mccains-vice-president-tim-pawlenty/
http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2008/talk_about_no_class_barack_obama_gives_hillary_the_middle_finger
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/dave_in_fla/2008/nov/01/fear-grips-the-obama-campaign-worker/
http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2008/obama_and_googles_mutual_adviser_jesus_is_gay_wears_a_diaper_and_gets_run_over
http://www.redstate.com/blogs/thomas/2007/dec/31/just_a_drop_of_water_in_an_endless_sea
http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2008/barack_obama_sought_the_new_partys_endorsement_knowing_it_was_a_radical_left_organization
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/oct/27/redstate-endorses-mark-begich-democrat-for-s/
http://www.redstate.com/stories/miscellanea/redstate_has_a_real_need_for_your_help
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/jeule/2008/sep/18/new-manchester-united-jersey/
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/dave_in_fla/2008/nov/05/can-we-now-dispense-with-some-myths/
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/oct/06/breaking-the-gloves-are-well-and-truly-off-o/
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I write for quality, not quantity
Darin_H (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 4:34PM EST (link)yeah, that’s the ticket!
A visionary coward says that anger can be power, as long as there’s a victim on TV – Flat Top, Goo Goo Dolls
Is that what the Broncos were doing with touchdowns this year? .nt.
NightTwister (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 7:34PM EST (link)The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. – Winston Churchill
we'll trade ya....
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 8:58PM EST (link)for the Detroit Lions….
a/k/a… land of a million draft picks…. that will all do nothing….
Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
“Liberals, looking to do for? America what they’ve done for? Detroit! which is DESTROY IT!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”
Follow @JLenardDetroit
(RS:Help) (JLD) (Hollyweird) (Brain-deads) (SPIN-cycle) (Obamaocare) (Party of kNOw) (Conservatism) (TEApeats) (respectful) (message) (Warning: Children Will Die!!)
Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
“The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)